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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
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We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.
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I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.
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She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.
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I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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